Originally Posted by
gregf83
I know you don't like to hear this but the primary reason performances have improved in all sports is that the athletes have benefited from the application of the scientific method to nutrition and training.
You can feel free to ignore advances in our knowledge base but you can bet that Merckx and Lemond took full advantage of whatever technology was available to them.
Where not talking technology, where talking training. Greg LeMond in '89 put his bike in a huge 55 x 12 gear and rode it 54.545 km/h (34.52 mph), one of the fastest time trials ever in the Tour de France & trained long intense hours, I think Merckx, Hinault & alot of others went by the same means.
I'm not seeing much difference in times nor speeds, from todays guys over the guys of yesteryear???... And with "todays" guys we can associate them with performance enhancing drugs & fancy programs.
Thoughts?.